Infall

Quick meaning: Infall is a noun meaning The act or process of falling in.

Meaning

The act or process of falling in.

More Meanings

1. An incursion; an inroad.
2. (countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
3. (intransitive) To fall in.
4. (intransitive, astronomy) To undergo infall.
5. (astronomy, uncountable) Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma

Example Sentences

1650, Oliver Cromwell, a letter we learn that Ker , with his Western Army , was lying at a place called Carmunnock , when he made this infall upon Lambert

After this time the beam mass loss rate decreases since once the expansion wave radius is larger than the beam, material initially outside the beam starts to infall and compensate for material which is collapsing at centre of the core [...]

Word Forms

• infalls
• infalling
• infell
• infallen

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include descent, befalling, incoming, immanation, inferral, decidence.

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